I remember seeing a stat before that literally every Republican candidate for president has been compared to Hitler or saying that they would empower "far right" forces since Wendell Willkie in 1940. The only exception being Eisenhower, and only because it would probably be a bridge to far for even the most smooth brained of normie to believe the guy who defeated Hitler actually liked him.
It is highly unlikely that any studio which has been turned will be able to course correct.
Not necessarily, but they need to have a publisher who will enforce a turn on them. Creative Assembly went pretty woke and tried to create an arena shooter named Hyenas that would have been on par with Concord in terms of "comically over the top woke". They poured so many resources into it it started affecting their work with Total War games, especially Warhammer 3, and then lied that they had moved people for it.
But eventually, Sega realized just how off the rails the whole process had become around the time they released a beta (which flopped) for Hyenas as well as a trailer. So Sega sent a man in a suit with interesting tattoos with orders to inflict pain upon the gaijin, Sega reorganized Creative Assembly with one studio being entirely shut down and some directors being fired, and then gave them orders that in no uncertain terms amounted to "Stay in your lane, make Total War unless we tell you otherwise." And they did indeed bounce back pretty well and fixed the reputation and quality of TWW3, as well as Pharaohs (which had also had a mediocre launch), and announced they were putting all their effort in a major historical title.
But I do agree that a studio with publishers willing to do that is fairly rare.
Additionally, the other guy who the movie starts off making him seem like just a thrill seeking cowboy who drives a truck into tornadoes for the hell of it is just as smart about tornadoes, and has to help her on multiple occasions.
EDIT: Now that I am thinking about it, her boss is also portrayed as being a scumbag seeking to profit off of tornado damage even though he is a "POC".
Considering deportations and "remigration" are entering the public sphere as acceptable answers to the issue, it may yet be solved in the end.
My personal "head-canon" as it were is that the nations backing XCOM started sending their soldiers that were not great and then claiming they are elite. It would certainly fit with the lore about how the XCOM Project was close to getting shut down as it seemed like something that didnt have a purpose anymore (which is why you are starting with pretty minimal facilities).
Entertainment is weird because there is always a lag in them changing course and them actually coming out with things. Most of the movies and games we are seeing right now were created in 2018-2020 (at the height of Woke power) but are only just now coming out. Hell, some of them (like Dustborn) have been in the pipe even longer than that.
So even though they have started making a turn in some of the entertainment companies, it will be years before we actually see it, with 2026 being the earliest I have heard of for seeing it turn. But If it means anything, there are people who either work in the industry or have contacts in it (like Chris Gore) who are confirming that the change is happening. But unlike traditional industrial corporations like John Deere, Tractor Supply, or Ford, they are not cutting universally. So we will still see the likes of Disney riding that bomb all the way to the ground like it is the end of Dr. Strangelove, but others are going to make the turn when they can.
Yes, but they are considered one unit because of that from a tactical point of view. So if they cant fill out the whole CVBG, it doesnt sail.
Like the OP said: sidelining a few high speed transports isnt the end of the world for the Navy.
I still don't understand why they felt the need to build six of these in the first place
Because then they can make it look like a crisis for more money when the time comes to go crying to Congress.
Like how the Navy has been complaining for a few years now that they "cant build enough ships" and desperately need new drydocks built. And then you look at their proposal of what would be "enough" and it is shipbuilding on par with the height of WW2. Even though we are building ships at the same rate we have since the 1980's, but with ships that are far more capable than they were back then.
Come back and tell me it is a crisis when we are sidelining carriers and attack subs (the two ships in the Navy that actually make us a dominant force).
That is not entirely true. There is one branch that is still consistently meeting its recruitment numbers, that being the Marine Corps.
...who are the only ones still doing traditional advertising ("The Few, The Proud", "You are too much of a bitch to be a Marine, go join the Army or something", etc). I am sure this has nothing to do with it though.
I have personally come around to the theory Razorfist has said (dont know where he got it from) because it is the only one I know of that can actually pin down a motive for everyone involved.
That being that it was indeed a lone wolf job by Oswald, but Oswald still had contacts with the KGB and was in the US on KGB orders. And he killed Kennedy thinking it would get him his golden ticket into the elite society of Russia, only for them to be horrified and cut all ties with him. And then in order to prove to the CIA they had nothing to do with any of this so please dont start WW3, they threw Oswald and several of their other assets under the bus for the CIA to do with as they pleased. And then everyone agreed to shut the fuck up and a lot of it was put under wraps, and the CIA would rather have people think they did it than think an enemy agent did it (because as bad as the first is, the latter would be much worse to the average American).
Likely good for Trump. Most polls showed he was taking about 1-2% from Trump mostly in battleground states. Which means if the majority of them switch it goes back to Trump being in the lead. And with an endorsement, most pollsters expect it will indeed result in a majority of his supporters moving.
They literally think calling us things like Snowflake and talking about "Triggering" us works. After all, it works on them, so why not us?
Who also had no issue with using the Force "Thread that binds all things" to mind fuck someone visiting their flammable rock base to try to convince him to leave.
But remember: They are the good guys and it is the Jedi who are evil.
The normies in the UK though? They're going to virtue signal themselves to death.
It was something that Andrew Klavan was noticing when he lived in London even in the 1990's, and he has talked about it frequently. That he would have British people always talking to him about how Americans are too brash and uncouth, but then he noticed that they would roll over for practically every situation seemingly for no other reason than they dont want to make a fuss (as that would be "uncivilized"). So he has been saying he saw this coming for a while.
Basically you're going to piss off the Irish who are already burning shit down and they'll start burning and bombing shit in England.
Worse than that, we are already starting to see evidence that the Republicans and Unionist have been making truces in the name of "Fuck Keir Starmer" and "Auslander Raus". So it is something they should be very concerned with IMO.
Sturgill Simpson is another modern one I like. In addition to more traditional country sound, he also had an album he made called "Sound and Fury", which he came up with while high on painkillers and in addition to a very unique sound he worked with an anime studio in Japan to create a whole "animated album" for the songs.
Here is an example of my favorite one off of the album.
Other than that, I have mostly drifted into metal, most modern country I pick and chose by the song while still liking the older 90's stuff, and beyond that say Alan Jackson is still right.
You just going to gloss over the fact that the main villains are all the 7 deadly sins, and their ultimate evil wants to become a god?
Can confirm. We got a bat in our old farmhouse when I was a kid. We propped open the door, started shooing at it with brooms and sticks, and the bat was smart enough to take the hint and fly out the open door.
The only other thing that smart was the coyote pack we had in our area, which very quickly learned exactly how far my dads shotgun could reach and would not get any closer than that.
It was less them shooting the parade and more them shooting each other and having typical gang banger accuracy (the reason was even stupider, with it being a fight over a woman). But at the same time, it is also worth pointing out that it was another case of proving that people who have high trust can get along, because they were almost immediately tackled by the crowd and they didnt manage to get away.
And again, going there frequently, that was very much an anomaly. Generally it is only if you are in the East Side in Independence that you have to worry about things. Again, Downtown (which is where all of the stuff you actually want to see is) is fairly safe.
We are still going fine out here on the Great Plains. I go to Kansas City pretty frequently for day-cations, and while it has a local reputation that is mostly because it is bad by local standards. Downtown KC is still easily walkable, well policed, clean, and even at night is still relatively safe. There are also still plenty of well-paying manufacturing jobs around here, so it is possible to make a living.
But back to vtubing in general, in terms of models and such, getting one of those 'general use' ones just to see how you feel about streaming before commissioning your own model goes a long way, but I'm sure you probably have already done most of that research
Yeah, this is very much just a "Fun idea to make some side money doing something I was already doing anyway by playing games on the weekends." (since I have a full-time manufacturing job and am too beat after work to really do any long-term stream). There is still a lot of me doing the research and looking into how it would work or what I would need to pull it off.
It was mostly just an inspiration on the grounds that 1) I have seen some people say there is a niche in the strategy game market that not a lot of Vtubers have covered, which is my favorite genre of game. And 2) It was just a fun idea of "Aggressively American, Teddy Roosevelt but as an actual bear man" sort of character that I had in my head.
It would still probably be something I would not seriously start looking into until next year at the absolute earliest.
Also, sometimes it is more fun to just play a character instead of yourself. I have considered taking up VTubing as a side way to make money, and while the personality would just be my normal one played up a bit, it is still would be playing it up.
Bob is trying to backpedel his way out of the mess he has made after the stock is tanking, investors dont trust him anymore, and he is actually starting to face hard questions about what he is doing (the last earnings call, a lot of formerly friendly investors started asking him why all of their movies were bombing).
They also say it is catering to red states because it was filmed in Oklahoma with a lot of the supporting cast being Oklahomans.
Ignoring that the director had to fight the studio tooth and nail because they wanted it to be filmed in Atlanta.
Honestly, I can buy that Chen is the issue here and everyone else was in the dark. Considering they were all blindsided and it sounds like the money stayed with Chen, it is probably the most believable outcome. And it looks like most of the people tangentially related like Tim, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson (the three I checked) are still fine and still have their channels.
That said, on the other hand, I absolutely do not doubt that this is a political hit job. Since it seems that it is starting to dawn on the powers that be that Trump is more likely than not going to win, so they are setting up Russiagate 2.0 to try and stymie him right off the rip. But I dont think it will work as well this time around.